Eden is a book-length conversation with John Milton and the world he inhabited and envisioned in Paradise Lost, especially as that patriarchal world is held up against the more complex realities of human existence. Drawing from history, art, literature, and science, and written in the blank verse Milton favored for his epic poems, Eden challenges the choices humanity has made, and looks to our more brilliant potentials to consider who we are and what we might become if we fail to learn from the past.